BUNDESLIGA – Round 8
Union Berlin is still top of the league but lost the advantage they had in points.
Bayern Munich moved up a position to 4th after a 4-0 win over Leverkusen.
Freiburg used a 2-1 win against Mainz to equal points with Union Berlin at the top of the table.
Hoffenheim dropped a position down to 5th after a 1-1 draw with Hertha Berlin.
Dortmund dropped two positions down to 4th after losing 3-2 in Cologne.
Bochum remains bottom of the league without a win.
Stuttgart remains in the bottom three without a win.
The defeat to Bayern Munich dropped Leverkusen down two positions to fall between Bochum and Stuttgart in the standings.
Werder Bremen moved into the top half of the league table with their 5-1 win against Monchengladbach.
Monchengladbach dropped three positions down to 9th.
Sept. 30
Bayern Munich 4-0 Bayer Leverkusen
Oct. 1
RB Leipzig 4-0 Bochum
Freiburg 2-1 Mainz
FC Koln 3-2 Dortmund
Frankfurt 2-0 Union Berlin
Wolfsburg 3-2 Stuttgart
Werder Bremen 5-1 Monchengladbach
Oct. 2
Hertha Berlin 1-1 Hoffenheim
Schalke 2-3 Augsburg
LEAGUE STANDINGS
1| Union Berlin – 17 points
2| Freiburg – 17 points
3| Bayern Munich – 15 points
4| Borussia Dortmund – 15 points
5| Hoffenheim – 14 points
6| Eintracht Frankfurt – 14 points
7| FC Köln – 13 points
8| Werder Bremen – 12 points
9| Monchengladbach – 12 points
10| Augsburg – 12 points
11| RB Leipzig – 11 points
12| Mainz – 11 points
13| Wolfsburg – 8 points
14| Hertha Berlin – 7 points
15| Schalke – 6 points
16| Stuttgart – 5 points
17| Leverkusen – 5 points
18| Bochum – 1 points
Bayern Munich needed this win as a statement.
Leroy Sane had Bayern Munich a goal up in the 3rd minute, Jamal Musiala doubled the lead in the 17th minute, and Sadio Mane tripled it in the 39th minute to get Bayern Munich in a commanding 3-0 lead at the break. Bayern Munich ended up a 4-0 winner against Leverkusen when Thomas Muller added another goal in 84th minute.
Bayern Munich had gone 4 league games without a win before this game (3D, 1L).
FC Koln came from a goal down to take all three points at home from a 3-2 win against a Borussia Dortmund side that was looking to follow a Revierderby win with another win.
Union Berlin’s first defeat of the season came in a 2-0 loss at Frankfurt.
Randal Kolo Muani picked up a second yellow card in the 68th minute but the numerical disadvantage did not stop Frankfurt from protecting their 2-goal lead to hand Union Berlin a first league defeat of the season.
Bochum remains without a win.
A brace from Timo Werner and Christopher Nkunku handed RB Leipzig a 4-0 win against Bochum.
Wolfsburg doubled their league win to move three points away from Stuttgart.
Yannick Gerhardt headed in the winning goal in the first minute of the final added time to get Wolfsburg a 3-2 home win to keep Stuttgart without a league win.
Werder Bremen was 4-0 up at the halfway mark.
Monchengladbach went from a 3-0 win against RB Leipzig to getting thrashed 5-1 by Werder Bremen.
Hertha Berlin and Hoffenheim both followed a league draw with another league draw after sharing the points in a 1-1 score.
Ermedin Demirovic gave Augsburg a 2-goal lead that was wiped out by the 63rd minute when Tom Krauss added his goal to Simone Terodde’s goal in the 33rd minute, but Andre Hahn’s 77th-minute goal restored the lead for a 10-man Augsburg to win 3-2 away against Schalke.
